HeritageQuest

Introduction

HeritageQuest is a genealogy database available through NCLive.org. HeritageQuest includes the full text (as scanned images) of about 28,000 books. The following are some titles we’ve found that are related to Gaston, Lincoln and Tryon counties. All titles can be found through “Search Books” in HeritageQuest. Try searching by author or family names, or browse the titles in the collection by title (books are sorted by the first word in the title that is not “A”, “An”, or “The”).

Call numbers are given for paper copies of titles that are also located in our North Carolina Collection.

Family Histories (by Title)

The Biographical and Genealogical Records of the Fite Families in the United States (pub. 1907) by Elizabeth Mitchell Stephenson Fite. 174 pgs.

Historical Sketch of the Schenck and Bevens Families: With an Appendix (pub. 1884) by David Schenck. 43 pgs.

History, Correspondence, and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England, the United States and Africa: Relative to their Common Origins and Ancestry; Methodically Arranged and Elucidated, After Many Years of Diligent Inquiry and Research (pub. 1912) by William Mendenhall. 297 pgs.

The History of the Killian Family in North Carolina (pub. 1955?) by J. Yates Killian. 28 pgs.

The House of Fowler: A History of the Fowler Families of the South, Embracing Descendants of John Fowler of Virginia and branches in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Texas, also records of Allied Families, Comprising Branches of More than Two Hundred Other Families (pub. 1940) by Grover Parsons Fowler. 768 pgs.

The Humston Family: A Genealogy of the descendants of Edward Humston of Stafford County, Virginia, 1667; Together with the Accounts of the Allied Families of Humstone, Humpstone, and Humpston in the United States (typescript, pub. 1943) by Ezra Sams Humston. 374 pgs.

The Record and Genealogy of the (Tilghman-Tillman-Tilman-Tilmon) Family, 1225 – 1938: Compiled from an Original Mss. By James D. Tillman, Jr., of Meridan, Miss., and Old Family bible of Christopher Tilghman, the English Emigrant of 1638, Family Records of Descendants of Dr. Richard Tilghman, the English Emigrant of 1661, Various Documents at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, DAR Records, Census Reports, Wills, and Information Supplied by Living Descendants of the Family (pub. 1939) by Stephen Frederick Tillman. 414 pgs.

North Carolina, 1780 – 81: Being a History of the Invasion of the Carolinas by the British Army Under Lord Cornwallis in 1780 – 81 With the Particular Design of Showing the Part Borne by North Carolina in that Struggle for Liberty and Independence, and to Correct Some of the Errors of History in Regard to that State and its People (pub. 1889) by David Schenck. 503 pgs.